Director Hooper — possibly sticking to the original stage production — never bothers to establish her relationship with adoptive father Hugh Jackman. (thestopbutton.com)
Phyllida Lloyd makes her feature film directorial debut an uneven one; she's a leading British theatre director who is noted for her work in opera and directed the original stage production. (homepages.sover.net)
I've also always enjoyed the story of how Andrews, the originator of the role of Eliza Doolittle in the original stage production of My Fair Lady, was passed over for the My Fair Lady movie (in favor of then better - known star Audrey Hepburn), only to win the Oscar for Mary Poppins (Hepburn wasn't even nominated for My Fair Lady). (chrisreedfilm.com)